This took the total number of blacklisted individuals to 79, and entities to 69. They would be subject to financial sanctions.

Those blacklisted included Hwang Pyong So, director of the general political bureau of the Korean People’s Army, and Choe Ryong Hae, vice chairman of the central committee of the ruling Workers’ Part of Korea.

The entities newly subject to the standalone sanctions are the Workers Party of Korea, the party’s Central Defense Commission, the State Affairs Commission and the country’s national flag carrier Air Koryo.

New sanctions were imposed by South Korea and the UN Security Council to take punitive action on the DPRK over its fifth nuclear test on September 9 that was seen as the most powerful ever.